Need help accessing partition created on Linux PC

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Not sure if this is the right ng so please re-direct me

I am running XP SP3
I have a 40gb hdd connected via USB
The 40gb hdd was formatted on a linux system, kernel 2.4.3
The partition table looks like this

Device ID Desc
/dev/hdg1 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdg2 83 Linux
/dev/hdg3 85 Linux Extended


Question:

Are there any drivers / tools I can use to access the current data on
this disk from my Windows XP system?


Thanks
 
.... said:
Not sure if this is the right ng so please re-direct me

I am running XP SP3
I have a 40gb hdd connected via USB
The 40gb hdd was formatted on a linux system, kernel 2.4.3
The partition table looks like this

Device ID Desc
/dev/hdg1 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdg2 83 Linux
/dev/hdg3 85 Linux Extended


Question:

Are there any drivers / tools I can use to access the current data on
this disk from my Windows XP system?


Thanks
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You could try ext2ifs. It installs a driver in Windows, that
understands EXT2 file systems. In your control panels, it adds
an IFS control panel, and there you can select the partition to mount,
and assign it a Windows drive letter.

http://www.fs-driver.org/

This is what the IFS control panel looks like.

http://www.fs-driver.org/images/ScreenIfsDrives.gif

On my Win2K machine, I use it to maintain a partition shared with
Knoppix. I can transfer a few files into the EXT2 partition, which
is visible in Windows as my "K:" drive, then shut down and boot
my Knoppix CD and click that volume and see the files. (For
file sharing between OSes, it is just as easy to share via
a FAT32 partition, but I have other reasons for wanting it
to be EXT2.)

Paul
 
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